Smitty's RV-9A - Experimental Aircraft from Van's Aircraft The RV-9A from Van's Aircraft Saturday, May 17, 2008 -
Howdeeeeee! I'm building an RV-9A from Van's Aircraft. Take your shoes off and sit a spell. Give me a holler if ya' got questions or ya' just wanna chew the fat about RV's.
 
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Howdy! I building an RV-9A! I'm an aviation nut and am excited about building my RV-9A from Van's Aircraft. Have a look around!
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My Paint Scheme
I am planning on painting my own aircraft, so I needed a paint scheme that is simple, but still has some "Pizazz". Ya' cain't go wrong with red! The black stripes will be vinyl "peel and stick" for that nice finishing touch. If you would like to play around with designing your own paint scheme, I have some black and white drawings that you can save on your computer.


Here's another version I have been thinking about. The whole thing is rather simple. Paint the airplane white and hire someone to put some custom graphics on, or have someone create the graphics and you put them on. Here are some graphics I came up with on my home computer.


OK, Here's another. My good friend, Scott Binder of BinderSign.com, put together this design for consideration for my RV-9A. He really does a great job with vinyl graphics design. I like the look of this drawing, especially the little "Smitty" on the tail.

The "cover your butt" section
This website was built to document my work on my RV-9A in compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by no means to be considered as instructions on how to build an RV-9A or any other aircraft.
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